Chapter Summaries

Long Xiao and his companions committed to facing the coming calamity together as the Ninth Grade Golden Pill auction stirred the Central Plains. As the Heavenly World opened, Long Xiao tried to hide his worries from Medusa, while Xiao Huohuo ended the night alone with a cultivation manual.

• Xia Yun Yun left to return to the Wind Thunder Pavilion and discuss the crisis with Yu Xuan, while Yao Lao planned to seek help from old friends.
• Xiao Huohuo, Curly, and Bai Ling'er vowed to stay and fight alongside Long Xiao, and Long Xiao promised to take Xiao Huohuo to the Primordial Star Domain after the crisis.
• The Heavenly World opened under Xiao Yi Xian's management as news of the Ninth Grade Golden Pill auction spread and stirred factions across the Central Plains.
• Medusa told Long Xiao that Ling'er, Curly, and Xiao Huohuo had entered seclusion, then comforted him when he concealed his worries from her.
• Long Xiao kissed Medusa and fell asleep with his head on her lap.
• Xiao Huohuo sat alone beneath the moon with the Emperor Seal Art cultivation manual.

Long Xiao reassured Xiao Huohuo and offered to take him to see Gu Xun'er before the young man’s time ran out. After Xing Yue reported that Nine Nether forces were hiding in the Central Plains, Long Xiao set out with Xiao Huohuo and Black Feather for the Ancient Realm.

• Xiao Huohuo feared he would die before seeing Gu Xun'er and asked Long Xiao to protect her and the Xiao Clan.
• Long Xiao reminded Xiao Huohuo that the Evil Keyboard Immortal could appear two more times, then promised to take him to the Gu Clan.
• Xing Yue reported finding many Nine Nether people concealed in a pocket of space and said no new passages had appeared.
• Long Xiao told Xing Yue to keep watching the hidden forces and chose Black Feather to accompany him.
• Long Xiao, Xiao Huohuo, and Black Feather departed for the Ancient Realm.

Long Xiao brought Xiao Huohuo into the Ancient Realm to meet Gu Xun'er, where Gu Yuan refused to arrange a meeting because she was cultivating in seclusion. Long Xiao revealed ten chests of extraordinary treasures as possible betrothal gifts, leaving the Gu Clan stunned.

• Ling Quan tried to stop Long Xiao, Xiao Huohuo, and Black Feather from entering the Ancient Realm, but Black Feather's Dou Sheng pressure forced him to let them pass.
• Gu Yuan and eleven Gu Clan experts confronted the visitors inside the Ancient Realm, and Xiao Huohuo asked to see Gu Xun'er.
• Gu Yuan recognized Long Xiao as the owner of Heavenly World and said Xun'er was his daughter, but claimed she was cultivating in seclusion.
• Long Xiao produced ten chests filled with rare pills, medicinal treasures, techniques, artifacts, and magical beast materials, calling them potential betrothal gifts for Xiao Huohuo and Xun'er.

Long Xiao used his treasures and Black Feather’s intimidating strength to persuade Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan elders to let him and Xiao Huohuo see Gu Xun'er. At the secluded loft, Xun'er joyfully reunited with Xiao Huohuo and met Long Xiao, while a Gu Clan elder secretly watched them with an eerie smile.

• Black Feather warned the Gu Clan elders not to covet Long Xiao’s treasures, and Gu Yuan realized the powerful man was stronger than himself.
• The elders changed their stance to keep Long Xiao from taking the treasures to the Spirit Clan, and Gu Yuan agreed to let him see Xun'er.
• Long Xiao teased Xiao Huohuo about his personal charm before following Gu Yuan to Xun'er’s secluded loft.
• Gu Xun'er rushed to embrace Xiao Huohuo and anxiously checked whether the Gu Clan had harmed him.
• Gu Xun'er recognized Long Xiao as the person Ling'er longed for and thanked him for looking after Xiao Huohuo.
• A Gu Clan elder slipped away from the others and smiled eerily, remarking that meeting Long Xiao was a twist of fate.

Long Xiao accepted Gu Yuan’s invitation to dine with the Gu Clan while Gu Xun'er went to speak with Xiao Huohuo alone. Elsewhere, Gu Xinyue killed the Hun Clan spy Gu Yang and took his token, while an unidentified young Gu clansman trapped Gu Lie in a painting and reported securing control of the clan’s perimeter formations.

• Gu Xun'er asked Gu Yuan to let her speak privately with Xiao Huohuo, and he reluctantly agreed after warning them not to cross any lines.
• Gu Yuan invited Long Xiao to dine with the Gu Clan, and Long Xiao accepted as Gu Yuan personally led him away.
• Gu Yang considered how to alert the clan leader about Long Xiao, but Gu Xinyue confronted him as a Hun Clan member and killed him with her purple-eyed power.
• Gu Xinyue took Gu Yang’s token to gain control of the ancestral hall formation and sent a message that the dragon hunt was about to begin.
• Gu Lie investigated a strange aura near the military camp and was trapped inside a Painting Formation by a young man, who took his Storage Ring.
• The young man hung the painting near the camp and reported that he had also secured control of the formations around the Gu Clan’s perimeter.

Xiao Huohuo warned Gu Xun'er about an approaching upheaval, while Long Xiao attended a banquet hosted by the Gu Clan. The feast ended in alarm when Long Xiao announced that the wine was poisoned.

• Xiao Huohuo told Gu Xun'er that the Dou Continent would face an earth-shaking upheaval in six days, but withheld many details.
• Gu Yuan brought Long Xiao and his companion to a banquet attended by powerful Gu Clan elders eager to befriend him.
• Long Xiao told the elders he had obtained a legacy from ruins, leading them to wonder if it came from Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• After praising the wine, Long Xiao revealed that it had been poisoned, shocking Gu Yuan and the elders.

Gu Sheng poisoned the Gu Clan’s wine, but Long Xiao used his last drop of water of life to save the clan members. The impostor revealed himself and forced Long Xiao to warn Gu Yuan to evacuate everyone below Dou Zun from the Ancient Realm.

• Gu Sheng admitted he had poisoned the wine with Yellow Springs Powder and evaded Gu Yuan’s attack.
• Gu Sheng countered Black Feather and declared he would kill the Gu Clan natives first.
• Long Xiao divided his last drop of water of life among the poisoned clan members, restoring their health.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan to seize Gu Sheng.
• Gu Sheng shed his disguise, and Long Xiao recognized him and ordered Gu Yuan to evacuate those below Dou Zun.
• Black Feather attacked the revealed man as Long Xiao urged him to hold the enemy off.

Long Xiao confronted Ghostly Worry, Shadow Moon, and Huo Qianhun, three top-ranked prodigies from Nine Nether who had sealed the Ancient Realm and planned to kill him. As the trio prepared to attack, a Golden Keyboard suddenly flew toward Ghostly Worry.

• Long Xiao learned that the Gu Clan had lost contact with Gu Yang, Gu Lie, Gu Xinyue, and Gu Qing, and identified Ghostly Worry as a third-tier Myriad Heavens Academy prodigy from Nine Nether.
• Shadow Moon and Huo Qianhun appeared and revealed that the trio were secretly helping the Ancient God Clan take control of the Dou* Continent while it searched for something.
• Ghostly Worry explained that Shadow Moon sought revenge for her master, the Prison Master of Phantom Shadow Hell, whom Long Xiao's sister had killed.
• The three attackers said they had each reached the peak of the ninth level of the Saint Realm, leaving Long Xiao and his allies unable to defeat them or escape the sealed Ancient Realm.
• Long Xiao tried to bargain for time to summon help, but Shadow Moon refused, and a Golden Keyboard suddenly shot toward Ghostly Worry.

Long Xiao and the Gu Clan faced Ghostly Worry, Shadow Moon, and Huo Qianhun as a battle erupted in the Ancient Realm. After splitting his allies off to fight two enemies, Long Xiao and Gu Yuan struggled to withstand Huo Qianhun, who launched another attack.

• Ghostly Worry knocked away the Golden Keyboard, and Xiao Huohuo and Gu Xun'er appeared beside Long Xiao.
• Long Xiao knocked Xiao Huohuo and Gu Xun'er unconscious, hid them in a magical leaf, and gave Ninth-grade Pills to the Gu Clan fighters.
• Ghostly Worry summoned the Ghost Gate, unleashing powerful ghosts that attacked the Ancient Realm, while Gu Yuan ordered the Gu Clan to retreat toward the Heavenly Tomb.
• Black Feather engaged Ghostly Worry, and Dao Slayer pursued Shadow Moon as Long Xiao joined Gu Yuan to fight Huo Qianhun.
• Long Xiao and Gu Yuan matched Huo Qianhun's soul attack but were knocked back by his strike; Huo Qianhun then closed in and punched at them.

Huo Qianhun cornered Long Xiao and Gu Yuan outside the Heavenly Tomb, and Gu Yuan sealed its entrance after evacuating the Gu Clan. Black Feather sacrificed himself to manifest the Heavenly Dao, empowering Long Xiao to attack the Nine Nether prodigies as the Ancient Realm began to collapse; outside the Xiao Realm, Xing Yue sensed that something was wrong.

• Gu Yuan and Long Xiao failed to injure Huo Qianhun and fled toward the Heavenly Tomb, while the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan were wounded trying to delay him.
• Gu Yuan ushered the others into the Heavenly Tomb and sealed its entrance, leaving Long Xiao outside with Black Feather, Dao Slayer, and the Nine Nether fighters.
• Black Feather sacrificed himself to manifest the Heavenly Dao, sealing the Ancient Realm and unleashing a celestial river of starlight.
• Long Xiao used the Great Life-Seizing Art and Dao Slayer's sword form to strike the Nine Nether prodigies, badly wounding them as the Ancient Realm began to collapse.
• Xing Yue, hidden outside the Xiao Realm, noticed the stars dimming and felt an unexplained sense of unease.

Long Xiao mourned Black Feather, who died saving him from three Nine Nether enemies in the Ancient Realm, and returned home with Dao Slayer. Medusa comforted him in the Spirit Pool and urged him to keep moving forward and seek revenge.

• Long Xiao left the ruined Ancient Realm with Black Feather’s powerless feather and asked Gu Yuan to care for Xiao Huohuo and attend an auction.
• A Nine Nether powerhouse told Gu Xiu that Long Xiao had killed the three planted agents, and Gu Xiu decided to meet him when he had time.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Medusa that Long Xiao had been grieving since his return from the Ancient Realm.
• Medusa found Long Xiao drinking alone and learned that Black Feather had died saving him from the Nine Nether ambush.
• Medusa joined Long Xiao in the Spirit Pool, comforted him, and urged him to avenge Black Feather and continue onward.

Medusa reported that she had subdued the Nine Netherworld Pythons, united the Ancient Dragon Clan under Zi Yan, and destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. After Nine Nether began mobilizing and Long Xiao learned its forces were targeting the Hun Clan, he headed for the Fallen Mountain Range while allies gathered to prepare.

• Medusa told Long Xiao that she had rebuilt the Heaven Swallowing Python elders’ bodies, placed them over the Nine Netherworld Pythons, helped Zi Yan unite the Ancient Dragon Clan, and wiped out the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xing Yue warned Long Xiao that Nine Nether experts had emerged, and Wu Ying reported that the Soul Hall army had been summoned to the Soul Realm.
• Long Xiao concluded that Nine Nether planned to destroy the Hun Clan, ordered Wu Ying to wait in the Fallen Mountain Range, and left Heavenly World with Medusa.
• The Wind Thunder Pavilion subdued the other Three Pavilions, and Yao Lao helped merge them into a force rivaling the Pill Tower.
• Chu Yuxuan sent Xia Yun Yun to the Fallen Mountain Range while he and Yao Lao prepared to recruit the Flower Sect and the forces of the Three Valleys.

Long Xiao gathered the Soul Hall’s forces and ordered them to reinforce the Soul Realm against the invading Nine Nether army. Hun Tiandi waited for reinforcements as Hun Miesheng arrived with news of a disaster.

• Long Xiao summoned nearly a hundred thousand Soul Hall followers and convinced them that otherworldly invaders threatened the Dou* Continent.
• Long Xiao left the Fallen Mountain Range with Medusa, and Xia Yun Yun joined them after seeing the Soul Hall’s massive force.
• Hun Miesheng found the Soul Hall’s Main Hall empty and decided to return to the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tiandi faced the Nine Nether army in the Soul Realm and refused its demand that he become their dog.
• Hun Tiandi asked Nihility Devouring Flame why Hun Miesheng had not arrived, and Hun Miesheng soon shouted that something terrible had happened.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame fought the Nine Nether forces in the Soul Realm, but their strongest formation failed and the Hun Clan faced destruction. Three figures arrived with a vast Hun Clan army, and one newcomer killed a Nine Nether powerhouse in a single strike.

• Hun Tiansheng reported that all the Soul Hall Followers had vanished, leaving Hun Tiandi shocked.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame fought the Nine Nether forces as the Hun Clan army charged into battle.
• Hun Tiandi summoned the four Gates of Dead Silence, but the Nine Nether Immortal Formation destroyed them and left the Hun Clan badly weakened.
• A Nine Nether powerhouse prepared to destroy the Soul Realm and kill Hun Tiandi, but a nine-colored sword cut him in half.
• The other Nine Nether powerhouses saw three figures arrive with a vast Hun Clan army behind them.

Long Xiao brought the Soul Hall army to aid Hun Tiandi against the invading Nine Nether forces and persuaded Hun Tiandi to join him. As the battle began, Gu Xiu arrived and both sides halted, leaving Long Xiao facing the man behind the invasion.

• Long Xiao told Hun Tiandi he had taken control of the Soul Hall members and offered to help him become a Dou Di against their common enemy.
• Long Xiao warned Hun Tiandi that the Nine Nether forces were invaders who viewed the Dou* Continent’s people as insignificant, and Hun Tiandi agreed to trust him.
• Long Xiao ordered an attack, and Hun Tiandi’s experts and Xia Yun Yun’s Light Sword Casket devastated Nine Nether’s mid-ranking cultivators.
• Medusa attacked a Nine Nether powerhouse, but a spatial ripple blocked her strike as Gu Xiu and a young companion appeared.
• Long Xiao and Gu Xiu called off the fighting, and Gu Xiu questioned why Long Xiao was protecting the Dou* Continent.

Long Xiao challenged Gu Xiu to a wager over the Dou* Continent, with each side forbidden from using their clan’s direct power. After Gu Xiu revealed that Nine Nether’s saint realm army would arrive in ten days, Long Xiao gathered allies to prepare for the fight, then returned to Heavenly World and spent time with Medusa.

• Long Xiao proposed that Gu Xiu wager the continent using Nine Nether as his pieces against Long Xiao’s forces, and Gu Xiu accepted after learning Long Xiao possessed the Heaven Realm’s Divine Lord Token.
• Gu Xiu revealed that Nine Nether’s passage would be complete in ten days, then left through a spatial gate with his experts.
• Long Xiao warned that the arriving army could match Dou Sheng experts, secured Hun Tiandi’s cooperation, and told the Hun Clan to recover while gathering information.
• Long Xiao, Medusa, and Xia Yun Yun returned to their respective bases, while Xiao Yi Xian remained in seclusion to break through to Dou Zong.
• Long Xiao and Medusa were intimate, and Medusa reminded him that their unborn child would begin developing in another year.

Long Xiao and his companions prepared to receive invited guests as the clans and factions of the Dou* Continent set out for Heavenly World amid growing fears of a greater calamity. Gu Xiu watched the completed Nine Nether Passage and hinted that Long Xiao’s time was running out.

• Bai Ling'er told Long Xiao that Xiao Yi Xian and Curly had also advanced to Dou Zong, and Long Xiao said they should prepare to welcome their guests.
• Xiao Huohuo and Gu Xun'er emerged from the Heavenly Tomb as Dou Zong and learned from Gu Yuan that they were in time to leave for Heavenly World.
• Lei Ying decided to attend Long Xiao’s invitation with Lei Dong, while the chiefs of the Yan, Ling, Shi, and Yao Clans also set out for the Central Plains.
• Chu Yuxuan and Yao Lao led a coalition of Central Plains forces toward Heavenly World, and the Pill Tower’s First Elder acknowledged that its Dou Di expert would determine what happened next.
• Gu Xiu chose not to interfere with Long Xiao’s plans and looked toward the completed Nine Nether Passage, warning that Long Xiao had little time left.

Long Xiao and the Heavenly World hosted a gathering in Sacred Pill City and set strict strength requirements for entry to the auction of a Ninth Grade Golden Pill. As powerful sects and ancient overseas clans arrived, the Little Pill Tower's First Elder revealed that some of those clans had fled overseas during an ancient era of upheaval.

• Long Xiao told Medusa to welcome the guests, and she announced the auction, the available seats, and the punishment for causing trouble.
• The Nangong Family head tried to enter with three Dou Zun but was denied, while the Demonfolk Sect became the first power admitted to the Earth Fiend seats.
• The Heavenly World admitted several powerful sects and families to the Earth Fiend seats, while a sect with thirty Dou Zun still failed to qualify for the Heavenly Dipper seats.
• The Overseas Qing Clan and Overseas Ice Clan were admitted to the Heavenly Dipper seats as Saint-level powers, puzzling the crowd and the Pill Tower elders.
• The Little Pill Tower's First Elder explained that ancient families with Dou Di bloodlines had migrated overseas during turbulent times, and he wondered what had drawn them back.

The ancient clans and other powerful forces gathered in Heavenly World for the auction, where the Ten Venerable Seats were filled one by one. With nine seats occupied, everyone awaited the Hun Clan’s arrival as the chapter ended.

• Long Xiao, Medusa, and Bai Ling'er observed the guests as the Heavenly Dipper Seats filled and the assembled forces debated Heavenly World’s power.
• Lei Dong and Lei Ying arrived for the Lei Clan, followed by the Yan Clan, Stone Clan, Spirit Clan, and Yao Clan, whose leaders took Venerable Seats.
• Gu Yuan arrived with Xiao Huohuo and Gu Xun'er, greeted Long Xiao, and watched Bai Ling'er reunite with Gu Xun'er.
• Zi Yan arrived as an eight-star Dou Sheng and explained that Long Xiao, Bai Ling'er, and Medusa had helped her restore her Dragon Emperor Bloodline.
• Yao Chen arrived with the Sect Alliance, followed by the Pill Tower; the Pill Tower’s members endured taunts as the audience anticipated the Hun Clan’s arrival.

Gu Xiu prepared Nine Nether’s armies to invade the Dou* Continent while Gu Tianshen ordered Gu Tiandi to seal it off with powerful treasures. Meanwhile, Long Jian asked Long Xue to protect the young people there, and she agreed as concerns grew over the Undead Death God’s return.

• Gu Xiu inspected the assembled Nine Nether forces and gave Long Xiao one more day before the invasion.
• Gu Tianshen told Gu Tiandi that heirs of the Heaven Clan’s four heavenly palaces were on the Dou* Continent and ordered him to seal the continent using the Chaos Divine Pearl and the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling Grand Array.
• Gu Tiandi accepted the two treasures and set off to isolate the Dou* Continent from the rest of existence.
• Long Jian told Long Xue that the Undead Death God’s reincarnation was returning, that his crystal coffin was empty, and that he had placed the Undead Blood Curse on Long Jian’s son.
• Long Xue agreed to travel to the Great Thousand Star Domain to guard Long Jian’s nephew against the Ancient God Clan.